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During college…my favorite past time was Spoken Word. I never wrote myself, but would get goosebumps listening.
From the video press release:
The title of the video itself, “HAIR PEACE,” comes to serve that very
purpose: for us as African-Americans to come to peace with our natural
hair. HAIR PEACE does not just educate us, but it also serves as an
anthem for our natural-haired women and men everywhere!
This spoken word speaks on the parallel between loving our natural
hair and loving ourselves all in a Euro-centric society focused around
everything that we are not. HAIR PEACE does not intend to demote those
who do not have natural hair but to instead it seeks to eradicate the
negative stereotypes of natural hair that stem from a society that
demeans us if we do not look like the straight-haired women in the
media.
Phoenix, AZ—September 2011- Natural hair stylist, Essence China
Farmer, presents to you “HAIR PEACE,” her original spoken word piece
centered around natural hair.
HAIR PEACE also goes into how natural hair in the black community has
been labeled an abomination in many cases because of generational
thinking dating back to slavery. But we are, in fact, rare and
precious in the Father’s eye with our uniquely-texted hair that others
covet!
HAIR PEACE not only encourages self-worth but also self-consciousness
of our authentic self. Natural hair does not equate nappy or
unkemptness! Our hair is versatile, freeing, empowering, and we need
to embrace, and not hate, ourselves for what we were blessed to have:
our natural hair.
This video was cultivated, directed and edited by Shanice Johnson.
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